Andy Reid calls snowball fights 'classy'

Snowballs were fired from the upper deck. In the lower deck, they came with even more speed, hundreds of them, and Eagles coach Andy Reid and his players couldn't help but notice.

One nearly hit Reid.

"We probably don't need to throw snowballs," Reid said, answering the final question of his post-game press conference following a 27-13 win over San Francisco at Lincoln Financial Field that enabled the Eagles (10-4) to clinch a playoff berth.

"We're a classy crew in Philadelphia here and we need to save that for the parking lot, I think."

A cheerleader was popped, security guards nearly nailed by snowballs. Several snowballs landed in one end zone.

Never mind that the snowball fights in the second half was more entertaining than the game. The Eagles defense, led by Brown and cornerback Asantel Samuel, defensive lineman Trent Cole and the dominating front four, was crushing the 49ers.

"Yeah, they were throwing snowballs at the refs, Howard Eskin," Brown said. "I guess they were trying to hit everybody they didn't like."I'm on the field and we had a defensive timeout and I'm looking in the stands. People are crazy. You don't realize the danger at risk until you hit a little kid in the face or something, and now somebody is trying to sue you."

Good thing the Eagles won.

"I’m sure if we had a bad performance they would have thrown at us," Brown said.

But Brown, who forced a fumble inside the 10, said the snowball fighting was all a part of football.

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The Eagles defeated the 49ers in a game that featured greater entertainment in the stands than on the field. Eagles coach Andy Reid apparently called snowball fights classy, which must have been his way of complimenting the fans for not packing the snow with bodily fluids.